Kaddish
The testament of a former concentration camp prisoner confronts and turns the lives of two young people from different worlds around, shedding light on the tragic history of their family.
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The testament of a former concentration camp prisoner confronts and turns the lives of two young people from different worlds around, shedding light on the tragic history of their family.
The emotional journey of a young Ashkenazi who attempts to visit his mother's grave on Yahrzeit during the Holocaust.
On the day his mother dies, Alex can't gather enough people for the funeral, to say the traditional Jewish Kadish prayer on his mother's grave. So at the Rabbi's suggestion, Alex sets out on a journey to find people to h
When, on his way back home, a man stops at a motorway service area, he did not imagine that by talking to his urinal’s neighbor, it will trigger some terrible events.
From an early age Yossi Klein received a special education. He was prepared for another Holocaust. So were other children in Boro Park, the largest Orthodox survivor community in America, and this candid portrait of a yo
Portrays the experience of the Roth family when Rachel Roth dies of cancer at age 59. She leaves behind an immediate family consisting of her husband and two daughters. The film focuses on the pain and searching of the R
A fragment of tinted nitrate. An acetate recording of a wedding ceremony. Echoes of the bitter sweetness of the Spirit on the tongue of Man. As Frampton tipped his hat to Gloria, so might I.
Gwyn is confused. Who is he, how should he act? He’s 15 and neither of these things are clear. He’s on the edge of being eased-out from his visits to see his best-friend’s girlfriend, he’s on the verge of getting beaten-
The film tells the story of Peri, a concentration camp survivor who lives in Tel Aviv and sets out in search of his former fellow sufferer Bach.
An elderly man is working tirelessly to revive the Jewish world lost in the Holocaust. His name is Aharon Appelfeld, and he became one of the greatest Jewish writers of our time. Every day, through his murmuring voice a
A hybrid of memoir docudrama and narrative fantasy, A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff tells the story of Madoff and the system that allowed him to function for decades through the eyes of musician/poet Alicia Jo Rabins, who wa
Shor film about two catholic nuns watching a jewish ritual.
The Nun's Kaddish is a short film that portrays a true story of inter-religious kindness when a Nun observes a Jewish ritual, raising the spirituality of the two faiths towards a higher ...
In this deeply poignant short documentary, potter and teacher Steven Branfman says kaddish for his late son by by making a new Japanese tea bowl (chawan) every day for a year.
Growing up in a Palestinian refugee camp, 14-year-old Ali Messalam learned to hate "the Jews" from an early age. After fleeing Lebanon with his family, he arrives in Berlin Kreuzberg. Here, Ali tries to make friends with